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SFU is the first Canadian university to sign an agreement to help India produce research pioneers and professionals in public health. The Public Health Foundation of India, funded with $50 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is partnering with universities worldwide to train future faculty for seven public health institutes. SFU faculty will develop collaborative research programs, and master’s of public health degree students will get practical training.

This book is a shoe lover’s dream. It’s a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book that takes us from the flat shoes and chopines (six-inch high pedestal mules) of the 1600s to the latest Manolo Blahniks – with gorgeous pictures and descriptions of everything in between.

His name is Shadrach Kabango, though he’s known as Shad K. He was born in Kenya to Rwandan parents, grew up in Ontario, has a business degree from Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, and is currently an MA student at SFU. That’s the capsule biography.